Also highlighted is the so-called Trefa Banquet, a controversial 1883 celebration, in Cincinnati, of Hebrew Union College's first graduating class of rabbis that featured such nonkosher delicacies as soft-shell crabs, shrimp salad, oysters and frog's legs.

If the man forced her to transgress the laws of Israel, such as forcing her to eat nonkosher food when she customarily ate kosher food or forcing her to have sexual relations while she was niddah, the court could compel him to divorce her and pay her ketubbah but might require evidence of his wrongdoing and warning by witnesses that he not do so (Isserles E.H. 154: 1).

Containing one hundred nonkosher German-Jewish and turn-of-the century American recipes, The Settlement Cook Book, now in its twenty-second edition, soon turned into one of the most successful American cookbooks ever published.

Larry King, joking about having no plans to quit his talk showReader William Kozy of New York submitted this quote: "Logic dictates that if the rabbis say cannabis is nonkosher for Passover, it is apparently kosher during the rest of the year." —